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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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The many become one and are increased by one.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
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